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CHAPTER VI
WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around
again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts
to make him give up that money, and he went for me, too,
for not stopping school. He catched me a couple of times
and thrashed me, but I went to school just the same, and
dodged him or outrun him most of the time. I didn't want
to go to school much before, but I reckoned I'd go now to
spite pap. That law trial was a slow business, appeared
like they wasn’t ever going to get started on it; so every
now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the
judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding.
Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time
he got drunk he raised Cain around town; and every time
he raised Cain he got jailed. He was just suited, this kind
of thing was right in his line.
He got to hanging around the widow's too much and so
she told him at last that if he didn't quit using around
there she would make trouble for him. Well, wasn’t he
mad He said he would show who was Huck Finn's boss.
So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and
catched me, and took me up the river about three mile in
a skiff, and crossed over to the Illinois shore where it was
woody and there wasn’t no houses but an old log hut in a
place where the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if
you didn't know where it was.